Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q324995> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 28 of
28
with 100 triples per page.
- Q324995 subject Q4386716.
- Q324995 subject Q6646328.
- Q324995 subject Q6936650.
- Q324995 abstract "John Adelbert Parkhurst (September 24, 1861 – March 1, 1925) was an American astronomer.He was born in Dixon, Illinois, and attended public schools in the state at Marengo and Wheaton College. He then attended Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana, earning a B.Sc. in 1886. For the following two years he taught mathematics at the same school. In 1888 he married Anna Greenleaf.He returned to Marengo, Illinois where he kept a small, private observatory that he used primarily for variable star observation. The Yerkes Observatory was built nearby in 1897, and in 1898 he joined the staff as a volunteer research assistant. By 1900 he was appointed as an assistant. He remained on the staff for 25 years, later becoming an associate professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in practical astronomy.His most important work was in the specialty of photometry. He also participated in three eclipse expeditions, but only enjoyed clear seeing conditions on the last (1925). During his career he published about 100 papers on astronomy, both before and during his time at Yerkes. In 1905 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. On February 27, 1925, he suffered a cerebral hemorrage and died a few day later at his home in Williams Bay. He was survived by his wife, Anna.The crater Parkhurst on the Moon is named after him.".
- Q324995 wikiPageExternalLink 1926MNRAS..86..185..
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q1073340.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q11063.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q113602.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q131252.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q14310.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q1536490.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q1758449.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q2166712.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q30.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q405.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q426199.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q4386716.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q492478.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q575288.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q656742.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q6646328.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q6936650.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q7138509.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q753299.
- Q324995 wikiPageWikiLink Q787674.
- Q324995 type Thing.
- Q324995 comment "John Adelbert Parkhurst (September 24, 1861 – March 1, 1925) was an American astronomer.He was born in Dixon, Illinois, and attended public schools in the state at Marengo and Wheaton College. He then attended Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana, earning a B.Sc. in 1886. For the following two years he taught mathematics at the same school.".
- Q324995 label "John Adelbert Parkhurst".